ATT Program in Great Lakes

[Mary, Proud Mom of Nick]

Hi Moms, found this article about the ATT program in Great Lakes that is part of A school for many of our Sailors. It is the Apprentice Technical Training School for basic electronics. Many of our Sailors classifications will include this programs, some of those are FCs, ETs and more.

ATT Course Reaches Next Milestone, Sets New Graduate Record




By Eva Kowalski, Training Support Center Great Lakes Public Affairs

GREAT LAKES, Ill. (NNS) -- The Apprentice Technical Training (ATT) School, operated by the Center for Surface Combat Systems (CSCS) at Great Lakes, has reached a milestone by setting a new graduate record. Since the launch of ATT in January 2004, 20,000 students have completed the training at one of four locations where it is offered.

The training facility, which is equipped with 780 computers spread among 30 different classrooms, accommodated an unprecedented number of students during last year’s surge, peaking at 1,196. The majority of the students to complete the ATT training are boot camp graduates, who migrate directly to Training Support Center (TSC) from Recruit Training Command, Great Lakes.

“ATT was the first Navywide computer-based training (CBT) school established as part of the Revolution in Training,” said Master Chief Gunner's Mate (SW) Donald Langlois, ATT assistant director for CSCS Learning Site, Great Lakes.

Langlois said the standardized course provides basic electricity and electronics training to 21 different ratings via CBT, combining material common to each rating.

“Basic electronics was taught in 13 locations via different methodologies. Since the theory and the concepts are the same, we created a common curriculum that’s shared by everyone,” he said.

ATT is the first step in training. Most CSCS ratings receive “A” School training afterwards, followed by on-the-job training in the fleet and “C” school training further down the road.

“If everyone is taught the same, then when they’re deployed it’s easier for them to talk technically to one another because they have the same backgrounds,” Langlois said. “Whether it is a Gas Turbine Systems (Electrical) Technician who is working on the electronics portion of the gas turbines or an Electronics Technician (ET) who is working on a radar or an Aviation Electronics Technician who is working on a helicopter or a jet, they’re all going to understand the same concepts.”

The CSCS location at Great Lakes, which provides training to nine different ratings, has led the way in developing the ATT curriculum. Other sites where the course is taught include San Diego; Pensacola, Fla.; Kings Bay, Ga.; and Groton, Conn.

Great Lakes also provides CBT “A” School training for ETs, Fire Controlmen (FC), Interior Communications Electricians, Gunner’s Mates and Torpedoman’s Mates. Ratings that receive ATT training at Great Lakes prior to reporting to follow-on schools in different locations include Sonar Technicians and those in aviation ratings.

Prior to ATT, CSCS Great Lakes offered apprentice level technical training through a curriculum known as “Tech Core,” but it was strictly for ETs and FCs, while other ratings covered similar concepts in “A” school training.

“We’ve grown into what we are today,” said Chief Warrant Officer 3 John Campbell, ATT director for CSCS Learning Site, Great Lakes. “The goal was to take reusable learning objects and mold them into one curriculum. We wanted to develop it once, manage it once and distribute it to the students.”

The ATT course accommodates the needs of each rating, ranging in duration from eight days to 63 days. The course is self paced and averages 700 students at any given time.

For related news, visit the Naval Personnel Development Command/Task Force EXCEL Navy NewsStand page at www.news.navy.mil/local/tfe/.

[Jackie]

thanks for the info Mary. my son will be attending this school soon. A lot of things have changed since my husband went through BEE school.

[Molly Molly Fo Folly]

I think this is what Colton goes into after BECC school. This or ITT but I haven't found info on ITT yet. So It sound like this class............
Thanks Mary

[Ivi]

mary, i need you support my husband is in hold from dic 19 for ATT school